fancify
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of fancify
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But rather than document, opera's job is to fancify as a means of discovering motivation and meaning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2016
Wes Mingus’s blues-rock lead guitar, terse and assertive, takes over where Mr. Williams leaves off, and the band doesn’t rush or fancify the tunes.
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2011
Arranging flowers and making unnecessarily fancified s’mores with professional chefs David Chang and Christina Tosi?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025
Staffers were dressed in football uniforms, making the rounds with fancified versions of stadium food, including plant-based chicken bites, garlic fries and tiny pizzas.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2022
I arrange my fancified French press mise en place — a small bowl, wooden spoon and tablespoon — on a single piece of paper towel next to my digital scale and clean French press.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2021
These were largely fancified versions of online access already common to gallery websites, except that you usually had to sign in and as a result perhaps feel slightly surveilled.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2020
I was fancified with the singin' and preachin'.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration
Amplifying it, embellishing it, fancifying it — that’s been going on for years.
From New York Times ● May 20, 2022
At first, the joke appears to be about the corporate sham of fancifying such shabbiness.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2017
Attempts to improve on the original plastic jewel boxes by fancifying the packaging, using cardboard sheaths or book bindings often of nonstandard dimensions, have mostly made matters worse for anyone who collects CDs in quantity.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2014
There he continu'd serving God, and magnifying him, and fancifying him, and meditating upon his glorious Names and Attributes, without any Interruption or Disturbance.
From The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan by Ibn Tufail
"Step by step" is a good thought to hold when we reach the fancifying of the house, as we only do after days of planning, nights of waking, over the must-be's.
From The Complete Home by Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth) Laughlin
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